Organizers:
Sharon Tooze (Cancer Research, UK)
Jon Lane (University of Bristol, UK)
AMP-activated protein kinase - a cellular energy sensor acting upstream of mTOR
Grahame Hardie (University of Dundee, UK)
Phosphoinositides in endosomal sorting and signalling
Peter Cullen (University of Bristol, UK)
Adi Kimchi (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Nutrient transporter expression and autophagy: Yin and Yang
Aimee Edinger (University of California - Irvine, USA)
Autophagy and cancer therapy
Andrew Thorburn (University of Colorado, USA)
The role of autophagy in clearance of aggregate-prone proteins associated with disease
Anne Simonsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Bcl-2-Mediated regulation of Autophagy in mouse physiology
Beth Levine (UT Southwestern Medical Centre, USA)
Autophagy and neurodegeneration
David Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge, UK)
Endosomal amino acid sensing and TOR signalling
Deborah Goberdhan (University of Oxford, UK)
Role of autophagy in cancer and therapy
Eileen White (University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, USA)
The autophagy core-complex regulation in physiological and pathological conditions
Francesco Cecconi (University of Rome, Italy)
Autophagosome biogenesis in yeast
Fulvio Reggiori (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Autophagy gene function in innate immune cells
Herbert Virgin (Washington University, USA)
Ubiquitin networks in autophagy
Ivan Dikic (Goethe University, Germany)
Kevin Ryan (Beatson Institute, UK)
Signalling pathways controlling autophagy
Marja Jäättelä (Danish Cancer Institute, Denmark)
Matthias Peter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
PI3P and autophagy induction
Nicholas Ktistakis (Babraham Institute, UK)
Investigating infection-associated autophagy in the rice blast fungus magnaporthe oryzae
Nick Talbot (University of Exeter, UK)
Regulation of macroautophagy in epithelial cells
Patrice Codogno (University of Paris-Sud, France)
Caspase regulation of autophagy
Sharon Gorski (British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Canada)
Mechanistic insights into membrane dynamics in autophagy
Tamotsu Yoshimori (Osaka University, Japan)
Human WIPI proteins, PI(3)P and autophagosome formation
Tassula Proikas-Cezanne (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
LC3-interacting proteins involved in selective autophagy and movement of autophagosomes
Terje Johansen (University of Tromso, Norway)
Tom Neufeld (University of Minnesota, USA)
Different functions for mammalian Atg8s in early stages of autophagy
Zevi Elazar (Weizmann Institute, Israel)